Mark Berry is writer and photo journalist, working as the LA Editor for
Bizarre Magazine
and freelancing for numerous international publications. The Englishman
produces and edits Naked - Magazine of the Weird and Wonderful and was
film programmer at the maverick microplex, The
Cube Cinema in Bristol, U.K.

Scott Christianson is an acclaimed author, investigative
reporter, and scholar, who specializes in crime and punishment. His books
include With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America (1998);
Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House (1999); Innocent: Inside
Wrongful Conviction Cases (2003); Notorious Prisons: Inside the World’s
Most Feared Institutions (2004); and Bodies of Evidence: Forensics and
Crime (2006). A former newspaperman and longtime high-ranking New York
state criminal justice official who holds a Ph.D. from the University
at Albany, he has taught at several universities and won many awards
for his writing, journalism and human rights activities.

Mark Gado was a police detective with the City of New
Rochelle Police Department in New York for the past twenty-nine years.
His story about serial killer Carl Panzram, Monster of Minnesota (2004)
won a Page One award for one of the top three magazine articles of the
year. He has written dozens of articles on criminal justice issues and
historical crime for Court TV's CRIME
LIBRARY.
He is the author of KILLER
PRIEST (2006) and DEATH
ROW WOMEN (2007). He is currently working on
his next book, THE MISBEGOTTEN, a story of a third-generation detective
who commits a series of murders in New York City.

Dr. G. Thomas Gitchoff is a criminologist, and professor
of criminal justice at San Diego State University and associate clinical
professor of psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine in La Jolla. He is
uniquely qualified in the area of criminology, counseling and sentencing
alternatives. He has qualified as an expert and has rendered his opinions
in case evaluations in state and federal courts on numerous occasions.
He has been appointed by the court in cases involving complicated facts
and serious charges. His interdisciplinary capabilities will give the
court a complete and useful evaluation of the defendant for sentencing
purposes and constructive alternatives to incarceration.

JOEL GOODMAN, Federal Bureau of Prisons Retiree

Joel Goodman retired in 2008 from the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons after 31 years. He also has experience with St. Louis County Jail and Missouri State Penitentiary. He is an expert on jail, prison and community corrections operations and does litigation consulting.

His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Administration of Justice from the University of Missouri and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from San Diego State University.

Joel served as advisor on several Panzram projects including the 2002 book, Panzram: A Journal of Murder. He has been published in a variety of professional journals and lives in Colorado.

KENNETH LAMASTER, Leavenworth Penitentiary Historian

Kenneth M. LaMaster has worked since 1979 in all three of Leavenworth's famous penitentiaries. His career began as a guard inside the United States Disciplinary Barracks on Ft. Leavenworth. In May 1982 He went to work as a corrections officer at the Kansas State Penitentiary. On July 24, 1983 LaMaster went to work at the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth. He has served as a correctional officer, materials handler and Institution Historian. During his career LaMaster has studied crime scene photography, is a member of the Advisory staff for the National Crime and Punishment Museum in Washington D.C. and lectures on the history of U.S. Penitentiary. Mr. LaMaster is also the Author of the book: Images of America, U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth. Book WEBSITE

Dr. Katherine Ramsland has a master's degree in forensic psychology
from the internationally esteemed John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
a master's degree in clinical psychology from Duquesne University, and
a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers. She has published thirty-one books,
including The CSI Effect, Inside the Minds of Serial Killers, The Human
Predator, and The Forensic Science of CSI. She currently contributes
editorials on forensic issues to The Philadelphia Inquirer; writes a
regular feature on historical forensics for The Forensic Examiner; and
teaches forensic psychology as an assistant professor at DeSales University
in Pennsylvania. Her forthcoming books are Into the Devil’s Den,
about an undercover operative, True Stories of CSI and The Devil’s
Dozen.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY - ROBERT RAY, Head of Special
Collections and University Archives.